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The Prophecy
of Isaias 59
Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it
cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot
hear.
But your iniquities have divided between you and your
God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he
should not hear.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers
with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your
tongue uttereth iniquity.
There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is
there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in
a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived
labour, and brought forth iniquity.
They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the
webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall
die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched
into a basilisk.
Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall
they cover themselves with their works: their works
are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is
in their hands.
Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting
and destruction are in their ways.
They have not known the way of peace, and there is no
judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked
to them, every one that treadeth in them, knoweth no
peace.
Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall
not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness:
brightness, and we have walked in the dark.
We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have
groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday
as in darkness, we are in dark places as dead men.
We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament
as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and
there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.
For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our
sins have testified against us: for our wicked doings
are with us, and we have known our iniquities:
In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned
away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny
and transgression : we have conceived, and uttered from
the heart, words of falsehood.
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath
stood far off: because truth bath fallen down in the
street, and equity could not come in.
And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed
from evil, lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw,
and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no
judgment.
And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished,
because there is none to oppose himself: and his own
arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice supported
him.
He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of
salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance,
and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.
As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries,
and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like
to the islands.
And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord:
and they from the rising of the sun, his glory: when
he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit
of the Lord driveth on:
And there shall come a, redeemer to Sion, and to them
that return from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.
This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit
that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of
the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's
seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. |